So I realized it's been over a week since I've blogged so I guess I should fill everyone in. I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty excited that this is probably my second to last blog. I hate it!!
Last Friday I visited San Sebastian with my friends Mackenzie and Elizabeth. San Sebastian is about an hour and a half bus ride from Bilbao and is in the neighboring providence of Gipuzkoa which is also in Basque Country. This city is beautiful. It's right on the coast and has a huge beach. The beach itself isn't particularly pretty but it looks out onto island cities.
When we got there, we decided to take the long way to the beach by following the river. San Sebastian has another Deusto Campus (where I go to school) that's way prettier! The walk was beautiful and the town is full of old, intricately detailed bridges. When we got to the beach, we started our day by going pintxo hopping. Pintxos are like mini appetizers and it's traditional for the Basque people to go from pintxo bar to pintxo bar to try a little bit of everything. San Sebastian is known to have the best pintxos in the world and the definitely lived up to their reputation. My favorite that I had was bread covered in a spicy tuna and cheese. It was the first time in Spain that I had something that I could actually consider spicy!
We spent most of the rest of the day sitting on the beach. It was too cold and rainy to swim but we sat on the beach, drew in the sand, and walked until there wasn't any beach left. For as little as we did, it was probably the most fun part about the day. The rest of the day consisted of walking through the town looking around before our bus left for the day. Of course, in true Emily/Mackenzie traveling style, we had to run to the bus stop because we went to the wrong place and were about to miss our bus. But don't worry, we made it home.
That Sunday, I went on another hike with my family in the mountains my Pelentzia beach. It wasn't as hard of a hike as the last one, but it was hot! As always, I ended up making friends with kids half my age. They heard the word American and knew that I had to know someone famous. The entire downhill hike was spent saying things in English so they could put their lessons to the test. When we got to the bottom of the mountain, the kids' mom asked Isabel if she could take me home with her and where to get one of me. I'm pretty sure I just recruited a new host family for the program.
The rest of the week was really slow. I spent most of it putting off writing one of my last essays. It rained the whole week too which made it go extremely slow. Last night I got to "attend" Jack's graduation ceremony via Skype. I couldn't really see or hear anything so that was great. I'm so glad I got to see and talk to everyone at the reception. I can't wait to come home and see everyone. 5 days left in Bilbao!!
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